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Ive been trying to buy new Brood for what feels like 6 months. Its sitting in my wish-list so I can buy them when it gets back in stock....

I ended up just finding them on eBay. It's a shame, since I'd be happy to just buy stuff from CMON directly, but I can't. On the plus side, I did managed to get enough for a few different factions, so I can just play the game when I want...

Anyone else hearing anything new about this yet? I figure it's been a pretty long time. I was getting pretty close to buying into Dark Age - my local game store still has some stock, and the Prevailer Council looks pretty boss - but I'm not that excited about jumping into a dead game. Anyone know what's going on?

For the time being at least, it looks like Dark Age is only being supported by the community. Luckily, the community's still pretty active, and people are running tournaments and such. However, if you're hoping for CMON to do something with Dark Age in the near future, I'd hold off for now.

One of the announcements from GAMA Trade Show was Asmodee was taking over all retail distribution and POST Kickstarter customer service for Cool Mini. Cool Mini also had a nice revenue boost at the end of 2018 from some of their succesful Kickstarters. Sounds like CMON is throwing their hat into the Kickstarter only model. Unless Cool Mini starts doing smaller Dark Age Kickstarters or another company buys the IP I'm worried that may be it for the game. Even if it is, it had what(?) a good 14 year run.

CMON does a fair amount of non-Kickstarter stuff, but it's usually the minis-heavy games that they put up on KS. I feel like the real issue with Dark Age is that it's not a "one-and-done" kind of project like a board game. Sure, they're doing ASoIaF, but to be honest I'm not sure how long they'll keep that up.

That's maybe an issue... but DA was more or less done(ish) anyway. It was almost perfect.
But the for me the more interesting questions is: Is it a way to behave if you take out a good product without any announcement?
CMON, please, don't do that with a great game like Dark Age. If it wasn't financially successful everyone will understand that; we are grown-ups. We all know that you have to eat like everyone else. But don't treat a game this way and hope that noone will take notice.

Please tell us something! If you don't know what to do with DA yet, tell us! If you decided to take it off your catalogue please tell us! If you work on a different approach or plan a rebranding, god please tell us!
We just want to know what happened to our favourite game!
I think it's a bit unprofessional to let us down this way. If you hoped for a bigger success it's okay, cancel it. We'll have to live with that. But all that is left for us are questionmarks?????
Please, act more professional on that.
Just a brief reaction that you didn't forget us... that is all we want.

I'll agree with you that the game itself (rules, balance, etc.) was pretty good, but there was a lot of life left in this game.

A lot...

All gone now though, like tears in rain, apparently!

Is it ridiculously naïve to say that it's not *really* gone until people stop playing it? I have models here which are on my build-and-paint list, and I hope to find opponents. True, it's hard to find models, but we can always scratch-build and use proxies. And best of all, The Rules Are Always Free. Says so right on the label.